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Sustainable, handmade furniture designed to last a lifetime

Handmade furniture designer Jeremy Lee has built JDLee Furniture around the values of sustainable and high quality furniture. “Buying less is more when it comes to our impact on the environment,” he says. “Our focus has always been to produce beautiful furniture that is built to last.”

The brand’s new range, released this month, is an antidote to disposable mass market trends. “It feels really important to be giving life to any craft that is slowly becoming forgotten by way of larger automated workshops,” Jeremy adds.

Featuring intricate handwoven rattan and attractive joinery, each piece is designed with repairs in mind, so you won’t need to throw away your furniture if it ever becomes damaged.

JDLee Furniture are a small team of highly skilled craftspeople based in the Byron Bay Hinterland. Each piece they produce is designed and entirely handmade by the workshop. Their commitment to environmental sustainability extends from the sourcing of materials to the recycling of any wastage.

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RENO ADDICT Styling

Splash into beachy bathrooms with Mermania tiles

Forget tacky beach décor, Mermania tiles in shades of aquatic blues create a modern, yet effortless summer style.

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These on-trend encaustic tiles are handmade from pressed cement, giving the pieces a chalky, matt patina with patches of imperfections a part of their charm.

“The coastal-inspired scallop motif is perfect to create a statement in a bathroom – or imagine a kitchen splashback!” said Tim Neve, the designer behind these stylish tiles.

The designs can be laid for both indoor and outdoor wall or floor use, to create a unique patch, and retail at $160 per metre squared.

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Art Homewares

Muhammad Ali’s poem inspires Michelle Atzemis to set up homewares business

When Michelle Atzemis stumbled upon Muhammad Ali’s poem, Me We, she saw it as a wake-up call to change her life’s direction. With the poem in mind, she decided to set up her own homewares business and Me We felt like exactly the right name.

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“Me We is one of the shortest poems ever written and I came across it many years ago at the point of my life when I decided to make a change and do what makes me happy,” explains Michelle. “I could not have done that without the support of my husband and family; my tribe. So Me We felt fitting in what I wanted to do.”

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Ring Stands

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Coming from a graphic design background, Michelle had always liked making things with her hands; but it wasn’t until she became a mother and started spending more time at home, that she decided to launch Me We. Featuring screen-printed bags, cases and cushion, hand cut artworks and hand carved ring stands, every item is one-off. “I make small runs of each design, as I like the idea of everyone not having the same,” says Michelle. “Having a market stall at Eveleigh Artisan Markets once a month gave me the opportunity to keep creating each month, so when customers came to visit there would always be something new and also I didn’t get bored making the same thing!”

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Happy Blocks

With Michelle always coming up with new ideas, it’s one of her latest offerings, painted artworks entitled Happy Blocks, which are getting the most attention. A lover of painting, it was a skill Michelle had mostly kept to herself, until friends and customers would visit her studio and be drawn to the artworks, the one thing that wasn’t for sale!

“My Happy Block paintings are painted on off-cuts of oak and red gum, which a carpenter friend of mine has no use for,” explains Michelle. “As soon as I laid my eyes on them I had other plans: to turn them into colourful artworks to be displayed and be cherished. They are not too large and can be easily moved around for a spot of colour.”

Priding herself on creating bespoke items, many if not all of Michelle’s creations have the possibility of being customised, so that everyone can have that special one-off piece for their home.

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Homewares

Olivia’s Fab Four Insta-Finds 16.07.14

 

Olivias-Fab-Four-1Olivia’s Fab Four is a weekly post that features my favourite finds on Instagram for the past week. To be in the running, all you have to do is hashtag your product photos #oliviasfabfour and tag them with my handle: @oliviashead.

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Here are this week’s beautiful products (clockwise from top left)

1. Gypsies Kiss A3, $110, from Little Quarters. @little_quarters

2.  Pom-Pom-Pom, $139, from Cubbylove. @lovecubbylove

3. Australia Map, $329, from Erstwhile. @WeAreErstwhile

4. Speckled Egg Wall Hanging, $55, from Kuberstore. @kuberstore

I’ll be back with more next week! Olivia x

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Art Homewares

Temple & Webster’s Hand Made Market goes raw and natural

Partnering with some of Australia’s most talented handmade designers, Temple & Webster will be hosting a special event sale next month as part of their bi-monthly Hand Made Market Series. The theme is Raw & Natural.

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Curated by textile designer and owner of Little Dandelion, Jacqui Fink, the sale will feature everything from hand carved spoons by the gifted Emilie Ristevski, hand felted woollen cushions by emerging designer Grace Wood and hand stitched linens by Weave and Wonder.

“Our Raw & Natural Market is slow craft at its most beautiful,” explains Jacqui. “It is all about quality, artistry and sophistication. My own work is informed by my great love of raw fibres and the soft muted palette of naturally coloured wool. That I have an affinity with makers who share this love of raw and natural is of no surprise. There is something very honest about the use of these materials when applied to traditional crafts.”

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With homewares and artworks that are timeless, special and impossible to replicate with synthetic materials or automated processes, the Hand Made Market is a wonderful opportunity to support local designers and offers a beautiful and exclusive collection of products from across Australia.

The sale on Temple & Webster will begin on Sunday 3 August and run through until Thursday 7 August 2014.